Collective intelligence

mental ability. This story takes place in the 1960s, and during this time period, people used different ways to measure intelligence. Charlie faces the decision to artificially increase his intelligence by having a surgery performed on him. Intelligence is not worth it when your happiness is at risk. Charlie Gordon should not have had the surgery to artificially increase his intelligence. According to the text, “Before, they laughed at me and despised me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they…

Francis Willard Elementary School is located in a Urban city called Arkansas City, Kansas which is located about 20 miles north of the Oklahoma border and 45 minutes away from the big town Wichita Kansas. The population in this town is approximately 12,00- 12,500 . This city is in between low income and middle income families the average income is about 35,000 whereas the state as Kansas income is around 50,000 according to the data city. As not only can you tell that Arkansas City is low income…

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King took pace in 1968. Jane Elliot, a third-grade teacher, decided to conduct an experiment with her students on race, discrimination and bigotry. During her experiment, she decided to split her students in to two section, which were the blue and brown eye groups. Elliot than decided that the blue eye go first on the first day of her experiment. They were the superior groups for that day, they had all the privileges. Example they were allowed seconds at…

The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble is gearing up for their annual Summer Theatre School. The workshops will be held at various times throughout the Summer and are geared towards various ages groups ranging from as young as 3 all the way to adults. There are many workshops to choose, with a complete list available on their the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble website. “The content is chosen based off the most beneficial components for each age group and experience with what has been successful in the…

State of My State Although I am comfortable analyzing pre-generated data, developing my own data utilizing formulas has been a challenging yet rewarding experience in EDRS 673. My comfort level and proficiency vary with each concept presented thus far. Descriptive data, correlations, and regressions are statistical methods I comprehend well enough to analyze confidently. On the other hand, z-cores and t-tests are statistical methods I struggle to fully understand. In general, I understand the…

The overall intent of the oral assessment center is to score the candidate based on a set of measureable dimensions. These dimensions can range from problem solving and decision making to technical knowledge and experience. However, these wide ranging dimensions call into question the validity of an assessment center to measure dimensions. Moreover, some literature calls into question the ability of the assessment center to measure dimensions at all (John P. Meriac, 2014). Additionally, the…

Learning Your Own Way Benedict Carey was born March 3rd, 1960 in California and originally had a degree in mathematics. He was a freelance writer for in Los Angeles before writing health and fitness for the New York Times. He then became a science reporter where he lives in New York for the New York Times and has been since 2004. Carey is one of the most emailed reporters. Carey has several outstanding reviews from media and average everyday readers. Carey’s How We Learn research…

of who the main antagonist, “A”, and her late friend’s murderer is. When many people hear the word smart, the first thing they usually think about is book or school smart. But, the smartest people have a personality that gives off an aura of intelligence, which Spencer always has in her points of view. The topic of smart personalities can be a bit hard to comprehend, but many people probably know at least one person in their life who seems to know everything, random facts float into their…

year-old adult with an IQ of 68. He is mentally challenged but he desperately wants to be smart. Charlie is asked to have a surgery that the doctors think will make him smarter but the results are not guaranteed. Charlie will do anything to gain more intelligence and therefore agrees to have the surgery and take part in the scientists’ experimentation on him and his advances. Charlie’s surgery does in fact increase his knowledge (at least in the beginning). As Charlie becomes smarter he starts…

Everyone has that one trait that will make them clever in life. Some people know that using that trait makes people change in a good way, or more likely a bad way. Others can’t realize it and make hurtful mistakes to others so they can quit that nice and kind life to find something more fun for them. In the story “Peak” a 14 year-old kid named Peak is hurt in the soul because his father didn’t even care for him anymore. Peak knows that now he will have to deal with someone else that he doesn’t…